The Washington critic., 1887-01-03

millionaire, having realized very
large fortune from his investments in
Missouri His wife. who is the daughter
OF brother the late Senator
Footo of Vermont, spent most of
her life in Washington, and
prefers this city to any place in the
country as a residence. They have
purchased, j understand, nearly $50.
O00 worth of land at the head Of Six.
teenth street, and will erect handsome
residence there"
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Tx Congressman G. N. Lamison, who
is engaged in what is known as the
East Tennessee Railroad combination,
in extending its system across Arkan.
sas, tells the New York Tribune a
story of his experiences there. On
going TO q hotel in a small town he
found the landlord, a fat, greasy and
heavy man, just putting up pack of
cards. "By the way" said Lamison,
in telling me of the incident, THAT was
tie only fat man | saw in Arkansas. /
inquired of him what he had been
playing, and he replied, Casino
That Is my best hold, reioincd, and
asked him to sit down TO contest.
Well, we sat down, and neither Of us
said very much. We played three
games, and he had beat me every time.
Then he looked up and said: Stranger,
where mought you be from2 Il came
here from the North on prospecting
tour was my reply. Then he crushed
me by the remark: 4 thought you
were not long in Arkansaw.
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Says Laura G. Holloway in the
Brooklyn MagaEiae fer january: The
Cleveland family is, in its best sense,
clannish one, tenacious in fratcrnal
affection and beautifully loyal to home
ties. The father died in 1855 when
the President was only sixteen and his
sister Rose Elizabeth was seven years
Of age. The mother was siugularly
strong character-the possessor of in
tellectual and moral force and great
dignity. She reared her children to
honor her and to love one another; and
in their maturer years they have not
departed from her precepts. She was
noble woman, intensely self-relant,
courageous and religious. A South
erner, reared in luXury-the only child
OF wealthy merchant of Baltimore
she had met the disasters of life
that followed her husbands death
with such fortitude and rare indc.
pendcnce as made her life q marvel to
those about her. 1t was only because
she had been bred in the circle of life
that was hers, and had come from such
family and home, that she was able
to meet misfortune as she did. Mrs.
Cleveland's ardent desirc--oftcn ex-
prossed-was to leave to the village
some expression of her good will and
appreciation of the kindness shown her
in days of trouble, and her wish was to
give fund for library. She cx.
pected that the estate of her son Fred
erick would provide for this trust but
tfter her death, when 1t was found that
II would not, her son Grover provided
the means for the purchase of the five
hundred and odd volumes now in the
library, and bearing the inscription:
Donated in memory Of Mrs. Ann
Cleveland by her children
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The story Of the Logan ancestry and
of how General Logan inherited or ac.
quired his appearance of having In
dian blood in his veins has never been
published, never correctly, at least
and is quite interesting, says the Chi
cago 7riJano. General Logans aunt,
Mrs. Margaret Phelps, the sole sur
vivor of that generation, q bright and
wonderfully Intelligent old lady, says
that her father and family emigrated
from County Monaghan, Ireland, in
1903. Her father was then child OF
3. Her grandfather, who was one of
the Scotch Presbyterian settlers Of VI,
ster, lived to be 11S. The family first
settled in Maryland, and then moved to
Ohio. Her father was stock breeder,
and her brother John, General Logan S
father, often made journeys south to
sell stock in New Orleans and other
cities. On one of these trips he met
the widow of Frenchman named Lar.
annie, one of whose sons Fort Laramie
is named after. The widow was half
Indian, half French-beautiful, well
educated and wealthy. BY this
wife DR.. Logan had one child, a
girl. Logan had picked up some
medical training at various places, and,
1t is said, got n degree during one OF
his stays at Natchez, Miss. DR.. Lo
ran's wife died in 1920, and he subse
quently married Elizabeth jenkins, tho
sister Of Lieutenant Governor jenkins.
General Logan was the first child by
the second marriage. DR.. James
Robarts of Carbondale, warm friend
of General Logan and his father, comes
into the story at this point, fol DR.
Robalts is authority for this curious
tale: "It is a physiological fact that
the first child by Il second marriage
frequently resembles the deceased wife
or husband to an extraordinary degree
General Logan's case is the most won
deiful illustration of this fact | evel
heard of. The Generals S father, DIR
Logan, was rather dark, but no
swarthY while his mother was blue
eyed and fair haired. Yet Genera
Logan, strange MS 1t mny seem, ia
heritcd the Indian features and com
pleXion Of DR. Logans half breed wifi,
who died several years previously. Tn,
first Mrs Logan was beautiful, as tho3
half breed won el Of en- are, and va
comparatively fair, much laircr, In
deed than her daughter, General I.o
gan's half sister, or than the Genera
himself. The grandchildren of tn
Generals half sister, by the by, liyln!
here in Carbandalc, show strongl,
marked traces of their Indian descent
though down to the fourth genera
ton"
a"s
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, tn
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